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years turned Lepidopterist. Jean Theodore Lacordaire was as- 

 sistant secretary. This young man, bred to the law, felt the 

 ivaiiderlust and made two trips to Brazil and Buenos Ayres. He 

 devoted the rest of his life to working over the material collected 

 on these trips. His Introduction to Entomology, published in 

 1834, was immature. He gave unlimited credit to Kirby and 

 Spence, but frankly confessed ignorance of German, which pre- 

 vented him from reading the great works of that nation. In 1859 

 he published his Genera of Coleoptera, which the world regarded 

 as authority until the Leconte and Home classification. J. G. 

 Audinet-Serville was Curator. This scientist devoted all his time 

 to Entomology, confining himself to no one order. He completed 

 the work of Beauvois. With Ch. J. B. Amyot, a Paris lawyer, he 

 monographed the Hemiptera for the Suites a Buffon, a subject 

 previously written on by the Marquis Spinola. Among his new 

 genera as many as possible were named for that nobleman, the 

 name Spinola being transformed into the maximum number of 

 anagrams. It seems that the Marquis had his sweetheart, There- 

 sina by name. He made his generic names as far as possible from 

 anagrams of this word. He edited, with Lepelletier de St. Far- 

 geau, an extensive work on the fauna of France. Several works 

 on the Orthoptera followed. The achievement which makes him 

 prominent in our check-list was a Classification of the Ceram- 

 bycidse, which was prepared for the first volume of the Annals. 

 This work included three species and forty-one genera which 

 survive. 



Dr. J. A. Boisduval, the great Lepidopterist, was a charter 

 member of the Society and incidentally named one American 

 beetle. Lucien Buquet was a clerk in the Ministry of Marine. 

 He liked the Cerambycidse best of all, and, like many others, 

 made a regular business of selling his duplicates, especially rich in 

 specimens from Senegal and Java. De Saulcy, who has a men- 

 tion in the check-list, was a Lieutenant of Artillery and had a 

 good collection from Peru, Asia Minor, Greece, etc. F. de La- 

 porte, eldest son of the Count of Castelnau, and himself later 

 succeeding to the title, had a splendid general collection. He 

 described many Hemiptera but his greatest work was on Cole- 

 optera with Gory. Chevalier Gory himself was a Captain of 



